Syrian Kurdish militias, who drove out Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants from the center of Kobane after 134 days of battle, are launching operations into the villages surrounding the Syrian border town in a bid to clear the last frontiers of the battle from the Islamists. …

Tunisia Feb. 2 presented its new coalition government, dominated by the secular Nidaa Tounes party but also including its Islamist rivals, as it prepares to tackle security problems and a faltering economy. Prime Minister Habib Essid announced the makeup of his new cabinet, which had initially been abandoned after the …

An Egyptian court on Monday upheld the death sentences of 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters convicted of killing 13 people during violence in 2013 after the ouster of the country’s first Islamist President Mohamed Morsy. The court, in its judgment on 188 defendants who were given death in a preliminary verdict …